Likelihood to Recommend For open source content it is excellent, over 16000 learning assets to work with. In this case, you allow learners to search and select what they need, when they need it, and how it supports their learning style. There are also uses cases where you need to curate a channel (compliance, DEI, etc.) where you can guide the learner and audiences to the content and track completion
Read full review As a real estate services company with properties (& employees) in six states, Totara LMS is well suited for implementing and our employee learning platform to our many team members that work remotely and cannot benefit from regular in-person learning courses. Totara LMS's comprehensive and customizable reporting system also allows us to accurately review and tell the story of employee performance and talent development, while tailoring this reporting to the needs of different internal stakeholders.
Read full review Pros It provides most books in audio and eBook options. You can download books for reading offline. There are thousands of books available and they are constantly adding to their list. Read full review Distribute elearning run exams Read full review Cons Skillport's user interface is relatively dated compared to many of its competitors. While the content library is large, much of the content appears to have come from at least 5-10 years ago. Read full review Reporting can be a little inflexible - sometimes, the report cannot be customized to have all the columns you need as they are not available from that area of the LMS. Graphic reporting needs some more work to be a bit more professional looking. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Books 24x7 is a useful tool for growth, knowledge sharing, and overall intellectual health within the company. Our company has been very forward thinking in offering this to every employee. As a result, people have been able to grow in areas they may not have previously explored because of the free access to resources they may not have bothered with before they had free access to them.
Read full review Usability The ability to read and/or listen to books offline is very helpful especially while flying and in remote areas with no internet. The books are easy to load on your laptop, phone or tablet. This is invaluable.
Read full review Support Rating Me and my other employees frequently reach out to support to address issues and they always help us in a timely manner. They are willing to work with you to solve and issue and are always available for help at any time. We haven't run into any instances where our problems didn't get solved.
Read full review Easy to access both local support and support/advice from other Totara LMS users as we keep in regular contact as a part of the totara government users group. Our vendor also keeps in touch with this group and a lot of knowledge is shared. It's easy to access the Totara LMS users academy, and one of my administrators has also set up a local forum where they ask each other questions and share knowledge as well. Our vendor is easy to access via our support plan and we have monthly catch-ups with our account manager where we hear about anything new coming up.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I haven't used any other online training system except for Skillport, and I wasn't the person who selected it. However, our organization usually uses pretty decent technology when it comes to training, and I trust that they felt this was the best choice for our organization versus the alternative options
Read full review Return on Investment It was a fantastic additional product to feature with our instructor lead offerings. We were able to capture learning sales even if they didn't have the training budget for custom courses. It reduced travel cost for instructors/or participants. Read full review Totara LMS has helped increase our employee retention by 15%. Totara LMS has drastically improved our employee learning and development processes that weren't in place prior to having this system. Totara LMS has decreased the time the onboarding process takes by 1 day. Read full review ScreenShots